On Sep 29, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
On the English Wikipedia, I have been trying to
upload the latest
version of wikipedia-mode.el, an Emacs lisp mode for editing wikipedia
articles. After submitting the file, I end up at a page that says
"Warning: .el is not a recommended file format". There used to be two
buttons underneath this, labelled "Upload anyway" and "Cancel", but
these have disappeared, which means I'm no longer able to proceed.
Please see:
On Sep 23, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> We're tightening up security on the uploads due to exploitable
> Internet Explorer and Safari bugs that allow for scripting attacks to
> steal session and saved password cookies.
>
> For the moment uploads are limited to the default extension whitelist:
> 'png', 'gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'ogg'. Other
types of files can't be
> uploaded to the wikis until we expand it again, but files already
> uploaded remain accessible.